Music festivals, sailing races, arts displays, and a poetry marathon are some of the events to be enjoyed this August bank holiday weekend.

Supertrawlers have the place cleaned out, says fisherman

Three pilot whales were successfully refloated, for a second time, after coming ashore in Brandon Bay in west Kerry yesterday.

ENGLAND: The Natural History Museum’s famous cast of a Diplodocus skeleton — affectionately known as Dippy — is to be sent on a tour of Britain.

ONE of the most uplifting aspects of travelling around Ireland now is seeing how the appearance of villages has improved so much in recent years.

BRANDON at Kilcoolishal, Glanmire offers half an acre of sheltered, mature gardens and the space to trade either up or down.

The Prince of Wales has admitted being a Fred Astaire fan and toying with taking up Irish dancing after seeing a special performance on his arrival in Ireland.

Problems with signage along the 2,500km Wild Atlantic Way are expected to be resolved in the coming weeks amid complaints that some visitors are being directed off the beaten track in certain scenic areas.

A firm owned by Kerry county councillor Danny Healy-Rae and his wife, Eileen, was the highest paid plant hire and haulage contractor to Kerry County Council, last year.

TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Conor Lyne is a man who seems at ease with his destiny. Despite his somewhat internationally mixed upbringing (born in England, brought up in the USA), there was never a shadow of a doubt as to what country he would represent if he got the opportunity.

The Denis Prendergast-trained newcomer Free Expression lit up yesterday’s Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point at Dromahane by posting a terrific stamina-laden performance with Kevin Power to win a vintage second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

I DON’T think I’ve ever had a bad weekend in Dingle — and I’ve been visiting there since before Fungi, the Dingle dolphin made it his home.

It never fails to command attention — the awesome sight of a giant whale sticking its fluke out of the water, swinging it around and slapping the waves before disappearing again.

This never gets old - astronaut Chris Hadfield passed overhead this morning, tweeting some more amazing pictures of Ireland from space.

GLORIOUS fuchsia, so much part of the landscape of West Cork and Kerry, seems to be growing in greater profusion than ever this year, as anyone travelling those areas can testify.

A large section of Mt Brandon in Co Kerry has slipped into the sea.

He’s in jail for a hate crime — but his black friends disagree. Tony Dokoupil reports

Police in the UK have released photographs of two men wanted in connection with a well-planned raid on a museum in which treasures worth more than £2m (€2.4m) were stolen.

The family of murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker have spoken of their relief after a Japanese court rejected an appeal by her killer.

Kerry County Council is to ban swimming near piers, introduce a fee for parking near beaches and charge for mooring small boats as part of controversial draft harbour bylaws.

FIRE safety could be a concern for a local authority at a proposed €500 million gas terminal at Tarbert on the Shannon Estuary.

LAWYERS for a man convicted of raping and killing a British teacher in Japan have launched an appeal against his sentence of life in prison.

THE father of murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker said his family had finally achieved justice after her killer was jailed for life in Japan.

A JAPANESE man accused of raping and murdering British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, whose battered body was found in a sand-filled bathtub, has admitted the killing, but said it was accidental.

FOR Kerry GAA fans, despite the success of this year’s Rose of Tralee, the festival is still threatening to become a nightmare.

A THICKER jaw, lower eyebrows and a protruding bottom lip — images of the facelifted fugitive who allegedly killed Briton Lindsay Hawker were released by Japanese police yesterday.

A THICKER jaw, lower eyebrows and a protruding bottom lip — images of the facelifted fugitive who allegedly killed Briton Lindsay Hawker were released by Japanese police yesterday.

THE economic downturn is delaying plans for the redevelopment of the old boatyard site in Dingle.

A STRANGE-LOOKING fish, caught off the south-west coast last summer, has been tracked to the Bay of Biscay.

British language teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, whose naked body was found in a sand-filled bath in a Japanese apartment, was beaten and then suffocated to death, police said today.

SMALL, but perfectly formed, this attractive bungalow at Brandon, Ballyphillip, Rathcooney comes with potential with a capital P.

SALMON netsmen throughout the country descended on the Dáil yesterday to campaign against plans they say will kill off their livelihoods.

‘MAKE your dreams a reality’ is emblazoned across the top of the brochure for a rather anodyne-looking property at Borris in Co Carlow.

THERE will be a lot more to catch the eye in the waters off Dingle this week than a certain dolphin when Brandon Bay plays host to windsurfing’s 2002 PWA Irish Wave Grand Prix.